The Plant Nutrient Group formulates, stores, and distributes nutrient, specialty, and industrial inputs and corncob based products through our strategically located facilities and extensive network.

Agriculture

Our wholesale facilities formulate, store, and distribute approximately two million tons of dry and liquid agricultural nutrients through our extensive dealer network. We are Feeding Success™ with customized value-added products and a broad service offering.

Our pelletized products, manufactured from high quality, natural sources, are leading the way in the limestone and gypsum business in both the agriculture and turf markets nationwide.

Our Farm Centers offer an extensive selection of products and services that are vital to successful crop production. Our advisors' expertise, combined with modern technology, provides growers with solutions to maximize crop production and income.

Turf and Horticulture

Our considerable experience offering specialty nutrients and formulations to the professional turf and horticulture markets, combined with next generation technologies, make us an industry leader.

Contract Manufacturing

Our facilities provide manufacturing services to some of the largest branded marketing and chemical companies in the world. These services range from bagging to custom formulation development. Research and development, regulatory, and marketing teams also assist in moving projects from concept to market.

Cob

Our corncob based products are sold into the laboratory animal bedding market as part of a complete bedding, nesting and enrichment product offering. Product and packaging services are also provided, including irradiation and sterility testing, and autoclavable and bulk bags.

Our corncob based products are also sold into industrial markets for use as blast cleaners, polishers, absorbents, stabilizers and carriers.

The Andersons is a diversified company conducting business across North America in the grain, ethanol, plant nutrient, logistics, and consumer retail sectors.

The Andersons is taking the same dedication and deep market knowledge that filled our elevators with grain almost 70 years ago to create fresh ways to serve our customers. We’re building a cutting edge network of transportation and logistics facilities that maximize our reach. We’re expanding into new markets using patented technology to take our businesses further, faster. We’re developing a line of products that make the grass greener and the yield bigger.

We’re repurposing today’s resources into useful solutions for tomorrow and joining the quest for a world run on renewable energy. We’re finding a way to compete on a global level and still feel like a small business, and never losing sight of our simple goal of serving God by serving others.

We’ll be fair and honest, tried and true, because those are the things that got us here. The Andersons story has as much to do with ingenuity as it does with legacy. A story about enduring relationships. A story about a team that is going beyond the ordinary; beyond the status quo; and beyond expectations.

Contract Manufacturing

Our contract manufacturing capabilities can lead to many advantages for your operation. From your product development and marketing to the efficient economies we bring to the table, partnering with us can help positively impact your profitability and success.

Our capacity and capability for handling a vast array of fertilizers, insecticides, fungicides, herbicides, combination products and growth regulators means you have a dedicated partner prepared and ready to manufacture your entire product offering. Beyond manufacturing, we also have the experts to assist you with packaging development and production while in compliance with state and federal regulations. We can even help you through each state's registration maze.

With the December, 2013 purchase of Cycle Group, Inc. (makers of EcoGranule), we've increased production and distribution capabilities, obtaining intellectual property and expanding our presence in the high-value markets of the granular business.

Cob Products

The cob side of our business services two distinct business lines: laboratory animal bedding products and industrial cob products.

Laboratory Animal Bedding
As the sole manufacturer of Bed-o’Cobs®, The Andersons has provided the research community with the most trusted name in bedding since 1962. While we began with a single product (1/4″ Bed-o’Cobs bedding), our premium product offering today includes 15 of the highest quality bedding, enrichment, nesting and specialty products.

As rodent work gained popularity in the 1960’s, Bed-o’Cobs was quickly recognized as “the bedding of choice” throughout the industry. As DNA mapping and genome work began in the 1980’s, we continued to improve our products and services in accordance with researchers’ desires for the highest quality in bedding for their animals and studies.

While we were first known by our Bed-o’Cobs branded products, our product line now includes a much broader selection, aimed at making an unnatural environment more natural. From irradiated and qualified products available in autoclavable and bulk bags, to sterility and heavy metal testing, we also provide a number of services to the industry.

Turf & Ornamental

We provide the golf, sports turf, lawn & landscape, horticulture and agriculture markets with some of the highest quality proprietary and blended products in the industry.

With a focus on quality, service and technology, we strive to deliver innovative solutions with extraordinary service. Investments in tech-centric products and services allow us to serve multiple green markets across the globe.

RESEARCH
With a dedicated technical staff and continued investment in R&D, we are committed to developing new, innovative products with a focus on increased efficiency and environmental protection. Patented technologies like our Dispersing Granule (DG) Technology have redefined nutrient delivery and product efficiency in the marketplace

DISTRIBUTOR NETWORK
Our worldwide distribution network has been carefully selected, and extends our philosophy of quality, service and technology.

Agriculture

With the recent addition of Nutra-Flo’s PureGrade and MicroSolutions product lines, The Andersons Plant Nutrient Group offers solutions for just about any challenge you may encounter in your fields.

From crop nutrition to soil health, all of our products are designed to keep you growing. We are Feeding Success® and driving higher yields through next-generation products and technologies. We formulate, store, and distribute nutrients through our strategically located facilities and extensive dealer network. We blend value-added formulations to customer specifications. We strive to be a partner of choice. We do what we say, when we say. We provide agronomic expertise and market knowledge, all while being good stewards of the environment.​

Wholesale
Our wholesale facilities formulate, store, and distribute approximately two million tons of dry and liquid agricultural nutrients through our extensive dealer network. We are Feeding Success® with customized value-added products and a broad service offering.

Retail
Our Retail Farm Centers offer an extensive selection of products and services that are vital to successful crop production. Our advisors' expertise, combined with modern technology, provides growers with solutions to maximize crop production and income.